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Flip the Script: Creating New Templates
Day Fifty-five
Creating New Templates
“That being said, there’s plenty of stuff that happened in my life, when I look back at it. I’m like, wait a minute. That was not okay. Just a million little things. It almost didn’t register. Which might be generational, you know? I think one substantive change is intimacy coordinators. They make perfect sense. It’s like a fight choreographer. Nobody would ever say, ‘Just take these swords and see what happens, just duel a little and see where the spirit takes you.’ That’s insane,” she says. “Aside from being a woman, the parallel world I see is getting stuck in some whirlpool of development where you never get out, you never get the thing made or find the right champions. I’ve been extremely lucky that I’ve managed to be supported by the system and not eroded by the system.” ~Greta Gerwig, Vanity Fair interview December 2023
There is a scene in the television series Shameless where Ian, a gay twenty-two-year-old man is being introduced to his boyfriend’s social justice coworkers. His boyfriend is a transman. This is the first time Ian has been introduced into a world where people are using different words to describe their gender and sexual identity.
· Tri-racial, cisgendered girl-fag. Pansexual and “my pronoun is “she.””
